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    Introduction Petsmart is the largest specialty pet retailer. They provide service and products for the lifetime needs or pets. They became a private company in 2015 (Associated Press, 2015). They sell live animals such as fish, gerbils, and birds. They also partner with adoption agencies for cats, dogs and rabbit. These partners will come once a week to hold an adoption event. Petsmart also offers services such as cat and dog grooming, boarding, training and an on-site veterinarian. Their vision

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    English grammar is an extensive and complicated set of rules that govern how we speak and write using the English language. Grammar has evolved over many centuries, and the rules change from time to time. Teaching grammar plays a central role in every ESL / EFL teacher's classroom. The topics cover a range from letters and sounds, parts of speech, vocabulary and stories to dialogue and conversation, listening comprehension, reading comprehension and written composition. English language and its usage

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    Induction and deduction are pervasive elements in critical thinking. They are also somewhat misunderstood terms. Arguments based on experience or observation are best expressed inductively, while arguments based on laws or rules are best expressed deductively. Most arguments are mainly inductive. In fact, inductive reasoning usually comes much more naturally to us than deductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning that is based on a general statement of fact is hard to argue with. When using this method

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    Teaching Philosophy Statement “Today’s children will be tomorrow’s leaders.” There is nothing more valuable to our society than its children – the lessons they learn will help shape them into the adults they will someday become. I want to be a teacher because I have a great passion for wanting to help children acquire the knowledge and skills they need, as well as the chance to explore their own interests and find their strengths. I believe my philosophy is an eclectic blend of essentialism

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    so. (Jean pulls out some dental floss) Get the ones at the back. And I've been standing here and Jean has been constantly undressing me with her eye-teeth. I can read your filthy mind, Jean. I know what's going on in your mind. I don't even like gerbils, so forget it. I'm an officer and a gentleman. (soft voice) Little flirt. Grrr. Now, Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary science stated the primary incentive for reproduction is physical well being and attractiveness. Intelligence in no

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    morning”, excuses are almost as much a part of day-to-day life as language itself. Like most things that are apart of everyday life, excuses have also found their way into literature. However, while procrastinating high school students have “my pet gerbil, Wallace, made a nest out of my worksheet” , authors, especially those writing tragedies, have fate. The question of whether or not each individual truly chooses what happens in their lives is one that has been addressed in various works of literature

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    Laboratory Animal Science, 1999). Currently there are hundreds of millions of animals used yearly around the world for research. These animals range from invertebrates, like fruits flies and worms to vertebrates, like mice, guinea pigs, hamsters and gerbils. Mice are by far the most widely used animals in research because they share 99% of their genes with humans (American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 1999). Cats are most commonly used in neurological research while dogs are used for biomedical

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    Susan Whitfield writes Life along the Silk Road based on character stories occurring between the eight and tenth century, all living at different times. She writes this history for several reasons. First, she writes it to change the negative perception of the history of Central Asia that we know through the annals of its neighbors. By explaining the history of the region through the eyes of its own occupants, it rids the history of any distorted views from neighboring civilizations. She uses the

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    fleas to rodents (“Plague”). Vector fleas can live up to six weeks, but can only transmit the plague for about two weeks (Eckenrode). Yersinia pestis bacterium infects bloodstreams of rats and other wild rodents such as squirrels, prairie dogs, and gerbils (Scogna). The plague can be transmitted by more than 200 different species of infected rodents. The plague can also be transmitted by domestic dogs, cats, sheep, rabbits, and even camels (Meyer). Humans get infected by a bite from a flea that has

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    Topper wagged her way into my nine year-old heart on the porch of my family's new country home. Here, life allowed room for dogs and cats to replace the turtles, parakeets, and gerbils of town. Seezer soon joined Topper on the porch. My father had found an orange mix of Irish Setter and Golden Retriever tied to a backyard chain, a victim of physical abuse and neglect. Likely due to beatings about the head, Seezer never learned his name or one command. Topper and Seezer played important roles

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